Comments on: How Not to Handle Nuclear Security http://abolition2000.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/how-not-to-handle-nuclear-security/ A network of more than 2000 organizations committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons. Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:48:30 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Sherbert http://abolition2000.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/how-not-to-handle-nuclear-security/#comment-153 Sherbert Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:38:15 +0000 http://abolition2000.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/how-not-to-handle-nuclear-security/#comment-153 Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway ... nice blog to visit. cheers, Sherbert. Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Sherbert.

]]> By: Alice Slater http://abolition2000.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/how-not-to-handle-nuclear-security/#comment-128 Alice Slater Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:08:51 +0000 http://abolition2000.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/how-not-to-handle-nuclear-security/#comment-128 Zia Mian's chilling examples of loose screws at the US nuclear weapons complex is only the tip of the iceberg. During the 1992 Congressional debate on whether to match Gorbachev's nuclear testing moratorium, the Dr. Strangeloves were arguing for just 15 more tests to test the "safety and reliability" of the nuclear arsenal. In rebuttal, there was entered in the Congressional Record a list of 38 incidents where airplanes carrying nuclear weapons actyakkt crashed on the ground or in the ocean and not one bomb went off!! Two of them spewed some plutonium on the ground in Thule, Greenland and Palomares, Spain, and one is still under the sea off the coast of Georgia, but they were apparently "safe enougn" not to go off. Nevertheless, since we signed the CTBT in 1996, the weapons labs have gotten upwards of $4.6 billion to $8 billion per year to test the "safety and reliability" of the arsenal in the "stockpile stewardship" program which has enabled them to design new mini-nukes, bunker busters, and other horrors, provoking other nations like Pakistan, for example, to get nukes of their own. We should close down all the weapons labs and buy the scientists out--send them all to medical school or give them a golden parachute. It would be much cheaper, and a heck of a lot safer in the long run!! Zia Mian’s chilling examples of loose screws at the US nuclear weapons complex is only the tip of the iceberg. During the 1992 Congressional debate on whether to match Gorbachev’s nuclear testing moratorium, the Dr. Strangeloves were arguing for just 15 more tests to test the “safety and reliability” of the nuclear arsenal. In rebuttal, there was entered in the Congressional Record a list of 38 incidents where airplanes carrying nuclear weapons actyakkt crashed on the ground or in the ocean and not one bomb went off!! Two of them spewed some plutonium on the ground in Thule, Greenland and Palomares, Spain, and one is still under the sea off the coast of Georgia, but they were apparently “safe enougn” not to go off. Nevertheless, since we signed the CTBT in 1996, the weapons labs have gotten upwards of $4.6 billion to $8 billion per year to test the “safety and reliability” of the arsenal in the “stockpile stewardship” program which has enabled them to design new mini-nukes, bunker busters, and other horrors, provoking other nations like Pakistan, for example, to get nukes of their own. We should close down all the weapons labs and buy the scientists out–send them all to medical school or give them a golden parachute. It would be much cheaper, and a heck of a lot safer in the long run!!

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